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Finding Common Ground & Valuing Different Views
April 15, 2012 | Jason Born
Dealing with different views is challenging in any family. Beliefs, opinions, and practices can diverge in so many ways. Making collective decisions across generations and branches within family foundations – while taking into account differing politics and religions, different attitudes toward money, and varying comfort levels with how public to be about wealth and foundation gifts – often requires patience, Read More
Knowledge Center | Sample

Inclusiveness and diversity statement
April 15, 2012 | Surdna Foundation
This statement on the value and importance of inclusiveness and diversity was developed by the Board of Directors for the Surdna Foundation: This policy includes, but is not limited to, the Foundation’s activities and practices in hiring, training, compensation, benefits, promotions, terminations, and business and community relations. Employees and candidates for employment with the Foundation are considered solely on the Read More
Knowledge Center | Passages Issue Briefs

A Place at the Table: Non-Family Membership on the Family Foundation Board
March 17, 2012 | Dorna L. Allen, Joseph Foote
Family giving comes from a common cause, a shared vision, a particular need for giving back a portion of life’s gifts. Family members can focus on shared personal interests and can shape the architecture of their giving by expressing and validating shared family experience. Foundation board service can be the means by which family members find a new and worthwhile Read More
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Who Takes the Lead?
March 15, 2012 | Alice Buhl
Our foundation’s board of directors is preparing to hire a new CEO to replace our retiring CEO, who has been with the family for nearly 20 years. As we talk with applicants, what are the most important topics we should discuss in terms of appropriate board and staff roles? In the transition between CEOs, Boards should discuss specific leadership roles Read More
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Help Wanted: What’s So Special About the Family Foundation CEO?
February 15, 2012 | Susan Crites Price
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Help Wanted: The Complete Guide to Hiring a Family Foundation CEO. At some point in the life of most good-sized family foundations, the board will need to hire a chief executive officer. (For simplicity, CEO is used here to refer to the top paid staff person who may be called executive director, president, or Read More
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Additional Reading: Enhancing Your Family’s Philanthropic Decisions
January 15, 2012 | National Center for Family Philanthropy
There are a variety of resources, both new and old, on the topic of enhancing diversity in the view and perspectives on family foundation boards. Here are a few of our favorites: A Place at the Table: Non-Family Membership on the Family Foundation Board by Joseph Foote and Dorna L. Allen, published by the National Center for Family Philanthropy, December 2011. Read More
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Discretionary Grants: Engaging Family… Or Pandora’s Box?
December 15, 2011 | Susan Crites Price
Editor’s note: This month’s feature story is an excerpt from the new edition of our Passages issue brief series: Discretionary Grants: Engaging Family… Or Pandora’s Box? If you asked at a gathering of family foundation folks whether using discretionary grants is a good idea, you’d never reach consensus. Many family foundations don’t use them. Those that do have widely varied Read More
Blog | From NCFP

Rowing the Philanthropic Boat Together: Reflections on Consensus and Civility
August 15, 2011 | Virginia M. Esposito
A foundation needs trustees who can work together productively, but it does not require that they be unanimous in their opinions or uniform in their outlook. …A foundation’s extraordinary potential for good springs from its board’s ability to act as a collective, to be cohesive in fulfilling its public trust. As Alfred North Whitehead remarked, “No member of a crew Read More
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Attracting the Right Grantseekers… and Keeping Them from Drowning in Paperwork
June 15, 2011 | National Center for Family Philanthropy
How do we put together guidelines that attract the right grantseekers… and that are respectful of their time and resources? Many family foundations have written the National Center over the past 15 years asking for guidance on how to create grantmaking guidelines that attract the right grantseekers and that do not place undue burden on the applicants (or the foundation Read More

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